should a LOCI be an email or hand-written and mailed?
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Why do i feel like choateâs WL is a âsoftâ rejection. After reading recent years thread, no one has got in into choate from WL compared to other schools like Exeter and Andover
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I mean choateâs teachers nd students r very friendly, ig students wouldnât mind leaving T10 schools for Choate. Also can anyone actually ask their AO if they hav taken any students off WL last year
Did you ask for FA? Or you were waitlisted without the need of money
Same with Berkshire, Milton, and govs
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Can anyone give general advice for LOCIs, and/or answer the following questions:
-Should I also include additional awards in the same email or send it separately?
-Should I send the email to the general admissions office or to my interviewer?
-Andover and Exeter barely admit anyone off the waitlist. Is the same true for St. Paulâs?
Thank you
Include everything you want to say in one email.
Follow any instructions on the waitlist pages -for example my daughter was waitlisted at Hotchkiss and the waitlist form said please send any updates to the admission email. We did that and got a reply saying thank you, this has been added to your file.
Another school didnât specify, so she ccâed both her interviewer and admissions email and got a reply from her interviewer.
Most schools take very few, if any, students off the waitlist.
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Yes, not to mention the isee test was also bad.
I am applying to some schools that have rolling admissions. Some of them ask about whether I applied to other schools and did not succeed or am I just getting started. Does it hurt to tell I am waitlisted at several schools? I want to be honest but feels like it wonât do good for me.
I would be honest.
On the plus side, they will know you are motivated to go to BS.
Yes, they will also know they werenât in your first tier of choices. But you can also explain that â you didnât do enough research at the outset, you focused only on schools near you/that you had heard of/ etc. By the time they hit your radar, the official deadline had come and gone.
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new member here so pardon me if this question has been debated or answered in the pastâŠ
my question on the wait list is - if one is waitlisted versus gotten accepted (in another school), how does one âreconcileâ:
a) âlove the school that loves you backâ - why would one wait for the other school that presumably did not âadmitâ you outright? (clearly we take the school that admitted you esp if you are willing and able to pay âregistration feesâ should the waitlist school take you later)
And, yes, agree that thereâs reach schools vs safety - which leads me to the next question
b) would not you be âhandicappingâ yourself trying to enter a school that has waitlisted you (and later accepted you) eg disadvantaged from the beginning vs going to the school that outright accepted you?
or is this clearly subjective and cannot be thought about in a more objective manner? thank youâŠ
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Why one might stay on a waitlist and hope for acceptance? Because you believe the school you are waitlisted at is a better fit, for any number of reasons
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are you handicapped by coming off a waitlist and subsequently attending that school? In a word, No.
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Schools will only accept you (even off the waitlist) if they think you can handle the work. Note: some kids get accepted initially and from the waitlist that cannot handle it, but from the onset they believe they can it.
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This is me right here
Got into a school I liked tho, after I put down my deposit Iâm withdrawing my spot from WLs.
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@MAGNA It doesnât hurt at all to be honest. The admissions officersâ job is to determine if you would thrive academically and socially at their school. They really donât care that they werenât your first choice. They probably ask the question to help their office understand their own admissions cycle; not to judge you. âWe know weâll get a bunch of great students applying after March 10â or âa chunk of kids at our school donât start thinking about boarding school until spring, so letâs target our advertising later in the year.â
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Hi, Iâm on Choateâs waitlist. I live about an hour away. Would it help to tell them that I can go as a day student if needed? I applied as a boarder.
Also, is it even possible to commute an hour from a boarding school each day?
Aa hour commute at BS is very hard as most students (at least at my daughterâs school not Choate) are on campus very early and stay through sports, often dinner and study hall. Weekends are busy. Some have classes, sports, activities, night feeds. You will want to be apart of the community and schoolâs want students that will be present as that is what makes the community thrive. It would be a big toll on your parents and you, if the school would even consider it. Also day students are waitlisted, too.
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At Exeter there is a specific geographical limit regarding who they accept for boarding and day (although some towns are âchoiceâ). My daughterâs friend lived about 45 minutes away and applied as a day student, which was the familyâs preference; the student was admitted, but ONLY as a boarder without the option to commute. The family ended up buying a small place in town for residency.
All that being said, it canât help to ask if you are very committed to it. However, I agree with Sroo that is could be very difficult both in terms of the physical and emotional demands. You will want to be on campus and engaged as much as possible. We live a mile from the Exeter campus and my daughter could walk there and I was very available to pick her up at any hour; many days she would be there from 8am to 10pm although she could sneak home for naps some days. It will be a big commitment. You could potentially have an affiliate dorm or designated space for day studentsâŠbut it depends on the school how available and useful those are, I think. (For example, I donât think kids used the day student lounge much at Exeter at all; they were more likely to hang out in their affiliate door common rooms. My daughter was also there during COVID, so that was an entirely different issue, that made being a day student even more of a challenge.)
Day students already face some obstacles to inclusion; I was ultimately very glad she was a day student for a variety of reasons, but I would not have wanted to make it harder by adding in that kind of distance.
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(Please, forgive me. I just had to.)
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